Capacity Building for the Planning, Assessment and Systematic Observations of Forests

Part I. Building Forest Inventory Institutions

1. The Growing Mandate of Forest Inventories
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2. Forest Inventory Problem Formulation
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3. Organizing Existing Information
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4. Technology Transfer and Applications
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5. Capacity Building in Planning and Forest Assessments
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Part II. Practice of Forest Inventory

6. Statistical Planning
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7. Special Studies
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8. Data Collection
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9. Data Processing
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10. The Report Writing
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Part III. South–South Cooperation

11. Common Patterns of Spatial Variations in the Tropics
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12. Remote Sensing Applications in Forest Inventory
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13. Growth and Yield Studies
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14. Estimating Potential Productivity of Forests
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15. Land Evaluation Techniques for Forestry Planning
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Part IV. International Dimensions of Forest Resources Assessments

16. Identification and Evaluation of Environmental Functions of Forests
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17. Ecological Zoning and Assessments of Biological Diversity in the Tropics
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18. Forest Assessments for Climate Change Reporting
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19. Global Forest Resources Assessments
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20. International Support to Country Capacity Building
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Keywords: Earth Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering, Forestry, Sustainable Development